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- Page 1 NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance Installation Guide 21 September 2016 Document version 1.0...
- Page 2 NVIDIA Corporation. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. NVIDIA Corporation and its employees shall not be responsible for incidental or consequential dam- ages resulting from the use of this material or liable for technical or editorial omissions made herein.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
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Page 5: Introduction To Quadro Vca
Quadro VCA user community. Go to this forum to post and to search for an- swers to your questions. Be sure to check out the useful tips and relevant product information posted by the Quadro VCA engineering and product support teams. -
Page 6: Quickstart
2.1 Connect the external machine to the interface (marked in blue in the illustra- eth2 tion) by using an Ethernet cable 2.2 Connect the interface to your local LAN. eth3 NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide © NVIDIA Corporation... - Page 7 If you do not want to change the network settings of an interface to a static IP address, leave this section empty and click Submit 4 To test the performance of the Quadro VCA, perform a render test by clicking Start Test 5 After you have completed and submitted all sections, a...
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Page 8: Quadro Vca Specification
18.2" (462mm) Front panel Quadro VCA front panel The front panel of the Quadro VCA contains the power button as well as indicator lights. Power button Press once to turn the system on. Press once while running to turn the system off. -
Page 9: Power Requirements And Consumption
VCA running at full load. However, a fully redundant system requires two separate 240V/20A curcuits with two power supplies per circuit; this configuration can tolerate the loss of any two power supplies or one complete 240V/20A circuit. © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... -
Page 10: Ports
21 dBA, which represents an empty office environment. Software The Quadro VCA comes pre-installed with the operating system, Iray and the VCA Manager. Iray is licensed to run on the Quadro VCA only. NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide ©... -
Page 11: Operating System
Iray and the VCA Manager The installed versions of Iray are: NVIDIA Iray 2014.5.3 NVIDIA Iray 2015 The installed version of the VCA Manager is VCA Manager Version 231000.8180. © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... -
Page 12: Directory Layout
For Iray 2015, the client finds the correct server version itself. The VCA Manager database contains the user accounts for the VCA Manager. The VCA Manager database is not overwritten when updating the VCA Manager. NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide © NVIDIA Corporation... -
Page 13: Hardware Installation
Leave approximately 30" (76.2cm) of clearance in the back of the rack to allow for suffi- cient airflow and ease in servicing. Always make sure the rack is stable before adding or removing an Quadro VCA or any other component. -
Page 14: Installing The Outer Rails
floor before you slide the VCA out for servicing. Failure to stabilize the rack can cause the rack to tip over. Note: The rail assemblies shipped with the Quadro VCA fit into a standard 19" rack. NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide ©... -
Page 15: Connecting Cables
Four power cables are shipped in the VCA kit. Connect these power cables to either a 110V (ac) or 240V (ac) outlet. A voltage of 240 is recommended for better power redundancy in the event of a failure of one of the power supplies. © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... -
Page 16: Ethernet Connection
1 Gbit Ethernet eth2 1 Gbit Ethernet eth3 Connect the network cables from the Quadro VCA to a data center network Ethernet switch, using a Cat5, Cat5e, or Cat6 Ethernet cable. Mapping of network ports in the VCA InfiniBand connection Connect the Quadro VCA to the InfiniBand switch. -
Page 17: Setup Intelligent Platform Management Interface (Ipmi)
4 Select IPMI BMC Network Configuration Change and change it to yes. 5 Change to a static IP address, gateway and netmask. 6 To improve security, change the login and password. 7 Reboot the machine. © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... -
Page 18: Software Installation
Software installation . System setup using the VCA Manager Software installation System setup using Linux commands When booting and the Quadro VCA is connected on interface to local network DHCP eth3 will be used by default. A unique hostname is preset. - Page 19 A field must be submitted to activate a change. Any field may be used and can be left blank. 4 The serial number of the Quadro VCA is displayed on the top left corner of the window. Please follow the link to register the system.
- Page 20 Restart button is displayed when all fields of the form are submitted. Network setup 8 Start Test will test the rendering performance of the system. If the test runs successfully, an image is displayed within two minutes. NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide © NVIDIA Corporation...
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Page 21: Infiniband Setup
11 Accept certificate warning to get to the VCA Manager. InfiniBand setup The configured InfiniBand network is 192.168.123.0. The system comes pre-configured with a random IP address from that network. © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... -
Page 22: Software Updates
Note: 1 For updates and installations, the Quadro VCA must be connected to the Internet. 2 When upgrading the VCA Manager on multiple Quadro VCAs (cluster), the VCA Manager has to be shutdown before upgrading. It can be shutdown from the VCA Manager tools menu. -
Page 23: Installing New Software Packages
1 Ensure that the latest version of VCA Manager is installed. If you are upgrading Iray Queue Manager, ensure that Iray Queue Manager is not running. 2 At the command line, enter: © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... -
Page 24: Starting The Queue
Stop Queue button is displayed; the queue is active and ready to render submitted jobs. Stopping the queue To stop the queue in Iray Queue Manager: 1 Login as the Iray Queue Manager administrator. NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide © NVIDIA Corporation... -
Page 25: Using Iray Queue Manager
BIOS settings are not reset. If the IPMI network was configured to a static IP address, that value remains unchanged after the factory reset procedure is completed. © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... -
Page 26: Creating A Bootable Thumb Drive
4.4 Click Create to write the ISO image to your thumb drive. 5 After the message "Installation Done, Process Complete" is displayed in the output win- dow, remove the thumb drive from the Windows PC. NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide © NVIDIA Corporation... -
Page 27: Resetting The Hard Drives To The Factory Settings
2.1.2 At the command line, enter: shutdown -P now Press the front power button 2.2 On the back of the Quadro VCA, insert the bootable thumb drive, which contains the factory reset image, into an available USB port. 2.3 Power up the Quadro VCA. -
Page 28: Setting Up A Third-Party Run Script
For a VCA cluster, the third-party run script has to be added to all nodes since scripts are not automatically syncronized between the nodes. Note: For third-party software, the VCA Manager icon does not switch from yellow to green. NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide © NVIDIA Corporation... -
Page 29: Testing The Installation
(using the IP address or hostname of your VCA). 2 Accept certificate warning. 3 Login to the VCA Manager. User Name: admin Password: admin VCA Manager Login window © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide... - Page 30 Software installation . Testing the installation 4 Reserve all available nodes. Change the number of nodes to the maximum number available and click Reserve. VCA Manager Overview window NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide © NVIDIA Corporation...
- Page 31 7 Test Iray Rendering. From the VCA Manager menu, select Test Rendering The test suc- ceeded if an image appears after about 2 minutes. The Quadro VCA is now ready for connection from any remote Iray client software. © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide...
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Page 32: Troubleshooting
. Testing the installation Troubleshooting If you are not able to connect from the remote client application to the Quadro VCA, perform the following steps: 1 Check that the firewall on both the client and server sides have ports 11000, 443 and 9090 unblocked. -
Page 33: Warranty And Licensing
Warranty and licensing Warranty and licensing Hardware warranty and software licensing: NVIDIA limited hardware warranty — VCA: http://www.nvidia.com/vca/hw-warranty NVIDIA VCA software end user license agreement: http://www.nvidia.com/vca/eula © NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance — Installation Guide...